I’m so glad they’ve filmed it… I read the graphic novel last year completely at random (someone bought it for my daughter & I thought it looked interesting)… still, it seemed quite obscure & I couldn’t believe it when I was listening to a movie podcast and a review of it came on. It’s a great story and I can’t wait to see it on the big screen.
Long time reddit user… haven’t been back since the protest started and don’t feel the need to for now at least.
I’m already reasonably confident that in the near future kbin/lemmy may well be able to fulfil the ‘idle browsing & keeping up with various interests’ portion of my Reddit use. And that was probably 95% of my Reddit time, so that’s good news.
I’m more concerned about the other 5% - the ‘Reddit as a vast repository of knowledge on how to do/fix/buy/make/etc so many things’… it could take years for the federated alternatives to achieve anything like Reddit’s position there, and there’s a question over how easily searchable it will be. Still, hopefully it’ll come with time.
The other angle I haven’t seen suggested here is that this is a forward-looking insurance play from Horner. At the moment RBPT are winning off the back of development work done by Honda in previous years. Nonetheless, they are new to the engine game and there is likely some substantial concern that when the next engine regs come they will be left floundering.
By backing the equalisation they give themselves precedent to demand the same again a few years down the line if RB engines fall behind the pack. They are likely very confident in the rest of their current package, to the point that they can risk making the current situation more competitive in order to guard against future disaster.
I don’t especially like Horner, but I think it’s hard to argue that he’s anything but an excellent team principle, possibly the best on the grid. If he’s doing this there is zero chance it’s for altruistic reasons - there is a play for RB here somewhere, it’s just a case of figuring out what it is.